Mop-head



v accompanying UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

JAMES A. TAYLOR, OF ALDEN, NEW YORK.

Mor-HEAD.

Specication of Letters Patent No. 12,365, dated February 6, 1855.

T 0 all whom, i may concern.'

Be it known that I, JAMES A. TAYLOR, of Alden, in the county of Erie andState of New York, have invented a new and Improved Mode of ConstructingMop- Sticks, which I have described in the following specification andillustrated in the drawings with sufficient clearness to enable othersof competent skill to make and use my invention, which consists in amethod of securing the mop in the stick and by the same means fasteningthe parts of the mop-stick together.

The 'drawing is a vertical projection of my improved mop stickthe lefthand end of the parts B and D, being shown in section to give a betterView of the internal construction of the parts.

A is the handle. It is coned at the lower end where it enters a conicalhole of corresponding taper, in the bar B. A small hole is bored throughthe handle A at a short distance above the bar B, and through this holea oord C passes, and the ends of it after lbeing passed through the endsof the bar B, are tied into the ends of the bar D, as shown in thedrawing. To introduce a mop into the stick, it is Vnecessary to turn thehandle in such a manner as to allow the bars B and D to separate a shortdistance to admit the mop between them,

which may be fastened firmly in its place,

stantially as herein set forth or in any other manner substantially thesaine.

JAS. A. TAYLOR. VVitness/es:

Trios.- P. How, HENRY J. VVEsToN, Jr.

